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Poem by John Heywood


The Master and the Man


A man, and his man, chanced late to be
Nigh where a crow stood crying in a tree.
“James,” (quoth the master), “the crow hath spied thee.”
“Nay, by God! he looketh on you, master, (quoth he).
“Taunts,” (quoth the master), rebound sometimes I see;
Where I thought thee, thou dost taunt me.”



John Heywood


John Heywood's other poems:
  1. Of Holding an Inn
  2. Of a Hand-gun and a Hand
  3. Of Treading a Shoe Awry
  4. A Reward to a Service Man
  5. What God Said to One. Otherwise. Thou art one of them to whom God bade Ho!


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